![\"How](\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/17\/APS-1440x696-1-615x297.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
To help optimize production capacity and scheduling, manufacturers turn to integrated ERP systems to find new insights into how they can solve complex scheduling conflicts. When production management teams settle for “just good enough” scheduling decisions, everything from machine capacity to customer delivery dates suffers. Staying competitive in manufacturing means always striving to optimize production capacity and scheduling in real-time. And that needs to start by automating these two core production processes.<\/p>\n
Scheduling production manually or with spreadsheets is a complex, calculation-intensive job. It can also lead to accidental errors or omissions that create shock waves across the shop floor, stopping production. Factoring in a diverse series of inputs, including demand forecasts, raw materials availability, tools and equipment availability, required delivery time, production rates, and more, requires an automated approach.<\/p>\n
Machinery capacity and availability determine a plant’s potential to produce revenue. Scheduling inefficiencies, unplanned downtime, and underutilized machine capacity can reduce a plant’s productivity by 25%, potentially leaving a typical business with $3 to $5 million a year in unrealized revenue.<\/p>\n
Sure signs a manufacturer’s facilities need to move away from manually-based scheduling and adopt a more automated approach to optimize production scheduling include:<\/p>\n
Knowing how efficient equipment capacity is being used across the shop floor directly impacts the plant’s ability to deliver revenue. Getting production capacity and scheduling right needs to start with an integrated manufacturing ERP system that can measure and manage production constraints. This includes knowing:<\/p>\n
An integrated ERP system designed to optimize production scheduling reduces fire drills and ensures consistency and optimization to help drive revenue, with capabilities to:<\/p>\n
Having production capacity and scheduling share the same database as an integrated ERP system makes it more efficient to schedule production runs and special orders, reacting in real-time to unexpected events. It is also possible to minimize lost machine and labor hours and expedite orders with minimal disruption of normal production. Having analytics and tools for performing “what if” analysis also helps identify the best combination of teams, machinery, tools, raw material work instructions, and products to be produced given the constraints on a shop floor. It is time to compete with more insightful, real-time data. That is why optimizing production capacity and scheduling with an integrated manufacturing ERP is critical to succeeding in today’s competitive environment.<\/p>\n
To help optimize production capacity and scheduling, manufacturers turn to integrated ERP systems to find new insights into how they can solve complex scheduling conflicts. When production management teams settle for “just good enough” scheduling decisions, everything from machine capacity<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":616,"featured_media":4301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,27,29],"tags":[322,321,226,323],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-manufacturing-trends-and-news","category-erp-technology-and-automation","tag-manufacturing-capacity","tag-manufacturing-scheduling","tag-production-scheduling","tag-shop-floor-capacity","avhec_catgroup-all","avhec_catgroup-home"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/delmiaworks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Learn](\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/17\/erp-value-whitepaper-ctav.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"